Usually means: Last resort, final alternative option.
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  8. pis-aller: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pis aller: Dictionary.com
  10. pis aller: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. pis aller: Rhymezone
  12. Pis-aller: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. pis aller: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pis aller: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pis aller: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A last resort.

Similar:
last resort, paraflight, pierhead, back, alose, ablen, peroqua, gaspereau, pikeperch, periagua, more...

Opposite:
optimum, ideal, best-case scenario
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Similar:
last resort, paraflight, pierhead, back, alose, ablen, peroqua, gaspereau, pikeperch, periagua, more...

Opposite:
optimum, ideal, best-case scenario



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